A prominent Pinehurst-area golf ownership group has more than doubled its portfolio. A corporation controlled by the Miller and McGowan families, including daughters of the late Warren and Peggy Kirk Bell, and partner Haresh Tharani, bought golf courses at Country Club of Whispering Pines and Foxfire Resort. The properties each have 36 holes. Whispering Pines’…
The Dugan Aycock Davidson County Amateur is accepting registrations for the July 26-27 tournament at Lexington Golf Club. The 36-hole stroke-play tournament is open to all amateurs 16 and over. The field will be flighted after the first round. Tee times begin at 7:30 a.m. each day off the first tee. Players do not have…
The newest addition to the Wake Forest women’s golf team showed good form this week. Winston-Salem native Morgan Ketchum, who transferred to Wake Forest this summer after three seasons at Virginia Tech, finished third in the Carolinas Women’s Amateur Championship at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls in Salem, South Carolina. Ketchum shot 71 with two…
If you want to play the best public golf courses in North Carolina, Golfweek would advise you to go to Pinehurst. The top eight public courses in the state are in the Pinehurst area, according to a Golfweek list released Friday. The top 10, in order: Pinehurst No. 2, Pinehurst No. 10, Pinehurst No. 4,…
Neither an iron to the head in the conference tournament nor a “monsoon” in the state tournament could prevent senior Brandon Bowman from leading Mt. Airy High to the Class 1A boys’ state championship. Bowman’s final postseason adventures began at Roaring Gap Club with the Northwest 1A Conference tourney. Standing in high grass “15 yards”…
With Pinehurst Resort’s continued expansion, its chief rival in the Sandhills appears unlikely to be left in the dust. Owners of the Pine Needles and Mid Pines resorts have announced a partnership with Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts, which will take over management and oversee renovations on the hotels and their food and beverage…
A college standout who grew up close to Wake Forest University apparently will finish her collegiate playing career at the Winston-Salem school. Morgan Ketchum, a three-year starter at ACC rival Virginia Tech, will play her senior year at Wake. Ketchum was the 2021 medalist in the N.C. Class 4A state championship and played on three…
How did a small town build the Jamestown Park Golf Course, a challenging, well-maintained facility with 18 holes and a driving range? “It literally was built with booze and liquor money,” said Scott Coakley, the longtime parks and recreation director for the Town of Jamestown. You see, back in 1974, Jamestown (population 2,231 in 1970…
Mallory Pitts of Greensboro posted a final-round 70 Thursday to win the 69th Carolinas Junior Girls’ Championship by two strokes at WildeWood Club in Columbia, South Carolina. The 15-year-old Pitts, a rising sophomore at Greensboro Day School, finished the 54-hole tournament at even-par 216. Pitts’ final round included five birdies and three bogeys, including a…
Who would have guessed the CGA North Carolina Amateur Championship would turn into a head-to-head battle between Russia and the Ukraine? But it did. Well, sort of, in a cordial way. Jackson Spires of Apex shot even-par 70 Saturday at The Cardinal by Pete Dye for a 9-under 271 total for 72 holes to hold…